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Backstage beauty report: Muse

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Backstage beauty report: Muse

“The designer showed us a magazine tear that inspired him. It was very Studio 54. We used this image as reference and went from there,” says Amelie Ducharme, artistic director for makeup at Montreal Fashion Week.

MAKEUP: Skin: Define your cheekbones by using a Cover Girl Pressed Powder in a deeper, warmer tone to your natural skin colour. Brows: Exaggerate your brows with line but mess it up so that it’s smudged.

Eyes: Try Cover Girl Smokey Shadow Blast—use the pale blue shade as your base—or you can also use Cover Girl Eye Enhance Palette in 117. Use the pale blue all over your lid and then use the darker blue in the inner corner of your eye and smudge it straight up to the brow, repeat on the outer corner of the eye and smudge up to the brow—this will give you two darker sections with a pale blue middle section. Load up with a few sweeps of Lash Blast Fusion in Black and finish with lining the bottom of the inner corner of your eyes.

Lips: Slick on a matte red. Ducharme used Cover Girl Outlast Lipstain in 440. How to make this retro edgy eye look from the runway into a real look: Tend to shy away from blue eye shadow? “This look would look great on someone with brown eyes, and wearing a neutral dress in grey or black,” says Ducharme. Take the Muse eye look down a notch by using a blue shade on only your lid and to line underneath your eyes. Then using a black or brown liner, line your eyes and smudge the liner to blend into the blue. “This makes the blue less bright, less in your face,” says Ducharme.

HAIR: “Christian Chenail told me he wanted volume and curls, but other than that said I could do whatever I wanted,” says Denis Binet. So he took inspiration from the show’s soundtrack—which included a mix of disco, pop and electro—and he started by skipping a traditional part in the hair and instead created a single braid along the scalp as the centre part. On either side of the braid, hair was made to look flat and shiny (“like a mirror” says Binet, with some Sebastien Liquid Gloss.

And on either side of this “mirror”? An explosion of hair. The models’ hair was curled using a very small barrelled curling iron to get the mega volume and just before sending them down the runway, Binet ranhis fingers through the curls to open them up, and then spritzed Pantene Curl-y Spray to give the hair lift and some moderate shine.

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Tell us who you're trying to find a gift for!

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WATCH: Estee Lalonde plays Fishbowl Frenzy

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WATCH: Estee Lalonde plays Fishbowl Frenzy

A few weeks back we had Youtube sensation Estee Lalonde into the ELLE Canada Closet to play a little game of Fishbowl Frenzy! Don't forget to pick up our January 2017 issue to see an exclusive portrait of the Internet star...and now IRL author of a new memoir / life advice book, Bloom.

Frank + Oak and the NBA team up on Raptors merch

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Frank + Oak and the NBA team up on Raptors merch

Canadian fashion label Frank + Oak is always up to something, and tomorrow the Montreal-based brand will drop a 9-piece Raptors collection in collaboration with the NBA. The pieces that make up the line are directional, minimal and best of all—unisex. The pieces include a crisp Oxford shirt patterned with a subtle team logo, a heather grey waffle knit mock-neck and a leather backpack. The coolest piece might be the two-tone pop-over shirt. The Oxford's mock-neck collar and mix of materials offer a completely new take on fan gear. Even fair-weather fans (hey, no judgement) will be tempted by this sleek collab.

The collection will launch tomorrow online and at Frank + Oak's Queen West and CF Sherway Gardens outposts as well as the Real Sports Apparel shop at the Air Canada Center. The brand is set to release merch for 5 more NBA teams in 2017. Until then, go Raptors, go!

This Walking Dead star is going to be a dad

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This Walking Dead star is going to be a dad

Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn on The Walking Dead, is having a much better 2016 than his character.

The actor married his longtime love, Joana Pak, in Los Angeles last weekend and, according to E! News, the couple is expecting their first child together. There's been no confirmation from the pair yet, but in the meantime, here's an adorable photo Yeun posted of his wife on Instagram on their wedding day.